This Gist demonstrates why my new employer has chosen to permit the use of goto statements in the code they produce. I won't claim that everything in this gist is correct syntactically or logically, but hopefully it is accurate enough to demonstrate the (admittedly special case) benefit to debugging and reading of this code provided by the use o…

Why we use goto

// Make a note of how many return statements there are!
// Also note that there is a memory leak generated because I don't always delete myObj
void lotsoReturns(int randomlyGennerated)
{
  someObject * myObj = new someObject();
  switch(randomlyGennerated / 100)
  {
    case 1:
      switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) / 10)
      {
        case 1:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 111
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 2:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 3:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 4:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          default: //I got bored
          delete myObj;
          return;
        }
        
        case 2:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 121
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 2:
          return;
          
          case 3:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 4:
          return;
          
          default: //I got bored
          delete myObj;
          return;
        }
        
        case 3:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 131
          return;
          
          case 2:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 3:
          return;
          
          case 4:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          default: //I got bored
          return;
        }
        
        default:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 111
          return;
          
          case 2:
          return;
          
          case 3:
          delete myObj;
          return;
          
          case 4:
          return;
          
          default: //I got bored
          delete myObj;
          return;
        }
      }
      break;
    
    default: //I hope you get the gist (pun not intended)
    delete myObj;
    return;
  }
}

//The difference here is that we use goto end to reduce the number of return paths from this function.
//This function does not have the same memory leak because I delete myObj imedieately before the ONLY return statement in the function
void lotsoGotos(int randomlyGennerated)
{
  someObject * myObj = new someObject();
  switch(randomlyGennerated / 100)
  {
    case 1:
      switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) / 10)
      {
        case 1:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 111
          goto end;
          
          case 2:
          goto end;
          
          case 3:
          goto end;
          
          case 4:
          goto end;
          
          default: //I got bored
          goto end;
        }
        
        case 2:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 121
          goto end;
          
          case 2:
          goto end;
          
          case 3:
          goto end;
          
          case 4:
          goto end;
          
          default: //I got bored
          goto end;
        }
        
        case 3:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 131
          goto end;
          
          case 2:
          goto end;
          
          case 3:
          goto end;
          
          case 4:
          goto end;
          
          default: //I got bored
          goto end;
        }
        
        default:
        switch((randomlyGennerated % 100) % 10)
        {
          case 1: //randomlyGennerated == 141
          goto end;
          
          case 2:
          goto end;
          
          case 3:
          goto end;
          
          case 4:
          goto end;
          
          default: //I got bored
          goto end;
        }
      }
      break;
    
    default: //I hope you get the gist (pun not intended)
    goto end;
  }
  end:
  delete myObj;
  return;
}